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Experts in the garden since 1855Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:39:19 +0000en-GBhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10https://i0.wp.com/blog.thompson-morgan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-thompson-morgan-512-logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1Blog at Thompson & Morganhttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com
323280212357Plants for shadehttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/plants-for-shade/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/plants-for-shade/#commentsTue, 19 Mar 2019 10:39:19 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17610Does your garden have a Cinderella spot? A part that doesn’t get the same love and attention as the rest? Chances are, says Mandy Bradshaw of The Chatty Gardener, it’s a shady area. Sunny borders might seem more interesting and easy to fill, but Mandy’s tips for the best shade-loving plants will give your neglected […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/plants-for-shade/feed/117610How to create beautiful displays with annual flowershttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-create-beautiful-displays-with-annual-flowers/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-create-beautiful-displays-with-annual-flowers/#respondThu, 14 Mar 2019 09:39:59 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17562Once March arrives, Nic Wilson’s potting shed is launched into action as her annual flower seeds come out. Here, the experienced gardener behind dogwooddays talks to us about the many roles that annual flowers play in her garden. Affordable, beautiful, and easy to grow, Nic shares her favourite annual flower combinations, and tips on how […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-create-beautiful-displays-with-annual-flowers/feed/017562Starting a culinary herb gardenhttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/starting-a-culinary-herb-garden/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/starting-a-culinary-herb-garden/#respondMon, 11 Mar 2019 15:34:44 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17598Anyone can start a herb garden, no matter how little space they have available. Some people create bespoke culinary herb gardens, while others tuck these flavour-packed plants into any empty space they can find. We asked The Sunday Gardener, Carol Bartlett, for her top tips on growing herbs at home. Here’s her sage advice… What […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/starting-a-culinary-herb-garden/feed/017598Geoff Stonebanks Driftwood Garden Updatehttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/gardening-is-an-art/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/gardening-is-an-art/#respondMon, 11 Mar 2019 11:30:22 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17552I saw this posted on social media recently! “Gardening is an art that uses ﬂowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas”. It was credited to Elizabeth Murray. It really tugged at my own perception of how I garden myself. As someone who has no formal background in gardening of any […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/gardening-is-an-art/feed/017552Not Quite Springhttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/not-quite-spring/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/not-quite-spring/#commentsMon, 11 Mar 2019 10:03:38 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17513Hello As I write this it’s the beginning of March and we’ve had a lovely warm spell but are now experiencing some wetter, cooler weather, and today it is blowing a gale here in mid-Wales. Rain is never a bad thing to be honest, it’s good to have rain sometimes, if not for the fact […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/not-quite-spring/feed/217513Planting Bare Root Peonieshttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/planting-bare-root-peonies/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/planting-bare-root-peonies/#respondWed, 06 Mar 2019 09:49:03 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17493What a lovely day, a day out of the office and back to the Private Estate where I work as a Gardener. I have been here for about fourteen years and have seen the garden develop, hedges have been removed, planting changed, refreshed and new borders developed. It has been an unseasonable day for February, […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/planting-bare-root-peonies/feed/017493Scent-sational Spring Flowers!https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/scent-sational-spring-flowers/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/scent-sational-spring-flowers/#commentsMon, 04 Mar 2019 12:35:38 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17474As I stepped into my garden earlier this week, I was captured by a breath-taking fragrance. I went in search of its source – and there on the other side of the fence was a magnificent Sarcococca! I love this reliable evergreen shrub. It has an intense (but not overpowering) perfume. Better still, it’s spidery, […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/scent-sational-spring-flowers/feed/417474How to attract birds to your garden all year roundhttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-attract-birds-to-your-garden-all-year-round/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-attract-birds-to-your-garden-all-year-round/#respondTue, 26 Feb 2019 08:30:49 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17394In January, Nic Wilson of dogwooddays was astonished to see a female blackcap in the garden during the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. It was a new species for her and, even better, it turned up at just the right time to be counted! She also has regular winter visits from redwing, feeding on next door’s […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-attract-birds-to-your-garden-all-year-round/feed/017394Hedge Funds!https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/hedge-funds/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/hedge-funds/#respondTue, 19 Feb 2019 15:28:26 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17420After a frozen start to the month, this week has brought sunshine and birdsong – spring is definitely in the air! As the weather improves, the sap begins to rise, and before you know it there will be a new flush of foliage everywhere you look! This signals that the bare root season will soon […]

]]>https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/hedge-funds/feed/017420Five tips for planting for pollinatorshttps://blog.thompson-morgan.com/five-tips-for-planting-for-pollinators/
https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/five-tips-for-planting-for-pollinators/#respondTue, 12 Feb 2019 09:59:04 +0000https://blog.thompson-morgan.com/?p=17381Bees, butterflies and other pollinators are under threat, so there’s never been a better time for gardeners to help by adding a few plants to support them. Here, Mandy Bradshaw from The Chatty Gardener shares five simple tips to help make your garden a refuge for pollinators. 1. Be part of the solution I love […]